Thikra

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Chotto Desh

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Over the last 25 years, Akram Khan Company has established itself as one of the foremost innovative dance companies in the world. Embracing an artistic vision that both respects and challenges Indian kathak form and contemporary dance.

Thikra: Night of Remembering, our last production

Thikra will embark on a global tour, with performances confirmed in London, Paris, Rome and more. Read the statement from Akram and Farooq Chaudhry here.

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Gnosis

World Premiere: 26 April 2010, Sadler’s Wells, London

Gnosis is a work by Akram Khan in which he combines his classical Indian and contemporary dance roots. It begins with Khan revisiting the classical motifs of two earlier solos, ...

Classical Intensive 2022

November/ December of 2022 marked the second AKC Classical Intensive, this time, in partnership with Sāraswatham Foundation & EnArt Consulting, in the South Indian city of Kumbakonam. This

Seeking Satori was the Company’s second Classical Intensive, this time, created in partnership with our friends at Sāraswatham Foundation & EnArt Consulting. What came...

The Silent Burn Project

This programme is dedicated to everyone who had walked with us on our unpredictable 20-year adventure. It’s for all the company members and artists from start to present, and for those who feel silenced and who are yet to find their voice.

“After twenty years of unearthing, discovering, and retelling through new lenses, this is a moment for me to reflect and to look back at the footsteps that we at AKC have ...

XENOS

‘Whose war? Whose fire? Whose hand is this?’ Xenos by Jordan Tannahill Akram’s most anticipated solo, XENOS, marks his final performances as a dancer in a full-lengt...

Outwitting the Devil

“I have awakened to a new way of dancing. And that is to dance my ideas through the bodies of others, including older dancers, who carry their histories and complex emotio...

"Twenty years on, it still feels like we're just beginning. It's exhilarating and beautiful to feel this way."

- Farooq Chaudhry

Carnival of Shadows

"Sadler's Wells Theatre has been my dancing home for the last 16 years I hold our longstanding relationship with Alistair and the staff at Sadler's with great respect an...

"What does dance mean to you right now?"

- Akram Khan

The Renovātiō Series

Welcome to The Renovātiō Series, the digital programme as part of our Carnival of Shadows season. Taking its roots and meaning from latin: rebirth / renewal, The Renovātiō Seri...

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